India believes its best hockey team in decades is ready to chase World Cup glory

Once the undisputed kings of field hockey, winning a record eight Olympic gold medals, India are targeting a return to their glory days bolstered by a string of recent successes after decades in the wilderness.

Demanding task master Fulton, a South African, is putting the players through the wringer in the heat and humidity of the southern Indian city, where both men’s and women’s national squads are training.

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